On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:53:45AM -0300, ppp2005@??? wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Using VMSTAT can you say that my server is overloaded?
> It is a Dual Xeon 2.4 with 1.5 Gb Ram ecc and Scsi Disk (Supermicro) running Exim, Clamav, Spamassassin and Smtp / Pop3 for 7.000 users.
>
> This exemple is "VMSTAT 2"
>
> root@titan:~# vmstat 2
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> 25 22 36380 172932 321088 551944 0 0 9 8 0 3 18 4 78 0
> 9 0 36380 110916 321088 552596 0 0 118 3250 1194 2235 88 12 0 0
> 8 7 36380 178324 321296 551780 0 0 152 3184 1227 2229 84 16 0 0
The CPU utilization is high.. I guess SA and clamav are causing this,
but you can relatively easily move them to a separate machine.
Also the number of outgoing blocks is a little high, especially compared
to number of incoming blocks... I'm not sure what causes this, though.
I'd run a few filesystem benchmarks to find the maximum throughput - when
your utilization reaches values close to that, the load will start to
grow exponentially...
Marcin
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